SOCIETY NEWS
New CASS Fellows
The following CAS Society members have been elected to the Fellowship of the IEEE, effective January 1, 2016 (names with asterisk (*) are elevated by the CAS Society):
*Massimo Alioto, National University of Singapore, Singapore, for contributions to energy-efficient VLSI circuits
David Atienza, EPFL - École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, for contributions to design methods and tools for multiprocessor systems on chip
*Kwabena Boahen, Stanford University, USA, for contributions to system design for neuromorphic chip
Jinde Cao, Southeast University, China, for contributions to to the analysis of neural networks
*Sandro Carrara, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland, for contributions to design of nanoscale biological CMOS sensors
*Jie Chen, University of Alberta, Canada, for contributions to low-power and biomedical ultrasound circuits and devices
Xilin Chen, Institute of Computing Technology, China, for contributions machine vision for facial image analysis and sign language recognition
Henry Chung, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, for contributions to power electronic converters for lighting
*Xian-Sheng Hua, Microsoft Research, USA, for contributions to multimedia content analysis and image search
Jiwu Huang, Shenzhen University, China, for contributions to multimedia data hiding and forensics
Tzyy-Sheng Horng, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan, for contributions to system-in-package modeling and design
Hitoshi Kiya, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan, for contributions to filter structure, data hiding, and multimedia security
*Avinoam Kolodny, Technion - Israel Inst. of Technology, Israel, for contributions to VLSI design and automation tools
Peng Li, Texas A&M University, USA, for contributions to the analysis and modeling of integrated circuits and systems
Tsorng-Juu Liang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, for contributions power conversion for lighting and sustainable energy
*Weisi Lin, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore, for contributions to perceptual modeling and processing of visual signals
*Gabriele Manganaro, Analog Devices Inc., USA, for leadership in the design of high-speed converters
Xinbo Ruan, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China, for contributions to switching-mode power converter topologies and modulation strategies
Ben U. Seng-Pan, Synopsys Macau Limited, Macau, for leadership in the analog circuit design industry
Toru Tanzawa, Micron Technology, Inc./Micron Japan, for contributions to integrated high-voltage circuits
*Qi Tian, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA, for contributions multimedia information retrieval
*Zhong Feng Wang, Broadcom Corporation, USA, for contributions to VLSI design and implementation of forward error correction coding
Jieh Wu, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, for contributions to design and calibration of high-performance data converters
*Kiat-Seng Yeo, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, for contributions to low-power integrated circuit design
*Bing Zeng, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, for contributions to image and video coding
CONGRATULATIONS!
Call for 2016 IEEE CAS Awards Nominations
This message is to notify you that nominations for the annual awards of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society are now being accepted. Nominations should now be submitted online by 15 February 2016.
Please go to http://ieee-cas.org/about/awards where you will find descriptions of the awards being given in 2016
Online submissions:
Society Awards
Pre-Doctoral Scholarship
http://ieee-cas.org/2016-ieee-circuits-and-systems-society-pre-doctoral-scholarship-nominations-form
Paper Awards
http://ieee-cas.org/2016-ieee-circuits-and-systems-society-best-paper-award-nominations-form
Chapter of the Year Awards
http://ieee-cas.org/2016-ieee-circuits-and-systems-society-chapter-award-nominations-form
Student Travel Awards
http://ieee-cas.org/2016-student-travel-award-nominations
It is very desirable that members who have contributed significantly to the various CAS Society activities highlighted by our awards be recognized. This is our way of showing our appreciation for their accomplishments.
Questions regarding awards and nominations should be sent to the CASS Administrator atmanager@ieee-cas.org.
Thank you for your cooperation and effort.
Vojin Oklobdzija, 2016 Awards Committee Chair
Invitation to CASFEST 2016
CASFEST 2016 will highlight the topic of “Lab on CMOS Systems” and will take place in conjunction with ISCAS 2016 in Montreal. Many CAS researchers have embraced the emerging concept of directly integrating active electronics into traditional passive lab-on-chip (LOC) systems, creating a new class of lab-on-CMOS (LOCMOS) systems – highly integrated multiphysics lab on chip systems that integrate instrumentation in intimate contact with sensing and actuation capabilities.
Most lab-on-chip systems are based on passive substrates and are limited to use as passive chips in labs. These chips in labs must typically be used in conjunction with large benchtop equipment for sensing and control, missing the opportunity for systems with a smaller footprint and a instruments with their integrated circuit equivalents. In such systems, the CMOS components are often used for sensing purposes and sometimes for signal processing, detection, and actuation as well. This reduces the need for external instrumentation, leading to overall systems with significantly smaller size and also the potential for completely novel measurements that cannot be performed using traditional approaches.
The integration of active chips into lab-on-chip systems poses a number of distinct and vexing specifically attributable to biological and fluidic domains (including electrochemistry, packaging, surfaces, sterilization, microfabrication, and microfluidics), and new versions of classical challenges in system-on-chip integration.
Program Information:
Date: Thursday, May 26, 2016 | Location: Polytechnique Montréal
Four-page contributed submissions due Dec 18, 2015
Notification of acceptance Jan 29, 2016
http://www.epapers.org/iscas2016
Registration details to be announced by December 1, 2015. The program will feature invited and contributed papers as well as panels on technical challenges and future applications of LOCMOS systems. Anticipated registration cost is $50 per participant. Papers will appear in the ISCAS 2016 proceedings and extended versions will be invited to a future special issue of JETCAS.
CASFEST 2016 Co-Chairs:
Pamela Abshire
University of Maryland, College Park
(301) 405-6629
Jennifer Blain Christen
Arizona State University
jennifer.blainchristen@asu.edu
(480) 965-9859
Pedram Mohseni
Case Western Reserve Univerity
(216) 368-5263